[Coco] os9 tool sees disk as full when it's not

[Walter Zambotti]

Alex

That seemed to be the problem.

I reformatted it and it seems fine now

Thanks

Walter

On 11/4/19 10:47 PM, Alex Evans wrote:
> Assuming this is a disk image you got from somewhere else, the disk
> may have been created with nearly all the clusters marked as used.  I
> would suggest looking at the allocation map. If those sectors are all
> 0xFF, then the disk is really marked as full and the os9 command is
> reporting the true situation.  Try making another empty disk image,
> copying all the files you want from this image to that one, and seeing
> how much space you have free.
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:35 AM Walter Zambotti <zambotti at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> Having trouble using the os9 tool on Unbuntu 18.04.
>>
>> The tool tells me the 720k floppy is full when there is only 80k of
>> files listed.
>>
>> $ os9 free ~/Projects/OVCC/CoCo/dsks/ANSIFRONT.os9
>>
>> "NitrOS-9/6809 Level 2" created on 05/29/2019
>> Capacity: 720KB (2880 sectors) 1-sector clusters
>> 0 Free sectors, largest block 0 sectors
>> Free space: 0KB (0 bytes)
>>
>> $ os9 dir -e ~/Projects/OVCC/CoCo/dsks/ANSIFRONT.os9
>>
>>                              Directory of
>> /home/odroid/Projects/OVCC/CoCo/dsks/ANSIFRONT.os9,
>>    Owner    Last modified    Attributes Sector Bytecount Name
>> -------   ---------------  ---------- ------ --------- ----
>>     0.0     2011/08/27 1838   ----r-wr      21     30150 ansifront.c
>>     0.0     2011/08/27 1839   ----r-wr     9F6      6027 ansifront.h
>>     0.0     2011/08/27 1840   ----r-wr     A0F     13373 binexpr.c
>>     0.0     2011/08/27 1842   ----r-wr     A45     30012 decl.c
>>     0.0     2011/08/27 1843   ----r-wr     ABC         0 expr.c
>>
>> So at the moment I can only copy a few files back and forth at a time.
>>
>> Is this a known issue or do I need to use certain options?
>>
>> Walter
>>
>>
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